the Levin-Bond amendment language which is in this bill requires the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate regulations increasing fuel efficiency standards. Our amendment changes nothing in the Levin-Bond amendment. Our amendment says that in establishing those fuel efficiency standards, we direct the Secretary of Transportation to also consider reducing oil consumption through alternative fuels--ethanol, biodiesel, and energy from coal waste.
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We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.
I usually default to the golden rule, and I think in this case it's a pretty good guide as well.
To have vacancies that may be not just months, but in some cases years to that have been filled, that justice delayed is justice denied.
We will do it again. Maybe the next time we will actually make it to Columbia.
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